easyWSL vs container-desktop

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easyWSL		container-desktop
	Project
5	Mentions	2
541	Stars	135
0.6%	Growth	0.0%
5.9	Activity	0.0
18 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

easyWSL

Posts with mentions or reviews of easyWSL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

EasyWSL: Use Docker Containers as WSL Distros
1 project | /r/WSL | 16 Aug 2021

1 project | /r/docker | 16 Aug 2021

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2021

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2021
Use Docker containers as WSL distros
1 project | /r/Windows10 | 8 Jan 2021

container-desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of container-desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.

Docker on Windows without Docker Desktop
2 projects | /r/docker | 19 Feb 2023

I would use this if you do not want docker desktop. https://container-desktop.io/
WSL friendly Docker Desktop alternatives
3 projects | /r/docker | 23 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing easyWSL and container-desktop you can also consider the following projects:

wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.

usbipd-win - Windows software for sharing locally connected USB devices to other machines, including Hyper-V guests and WSL 2.

FluentDocker - Use docker, docker-compose local and remote in tests and your .NET core/full framework apps via a FluentAPI

wsl2-podman - Script for installing WSL2 + podman and podman-compose (or docker and docker-compose)

one-script-wsl2-systemd - The one-script variant of the systemd hack for WSL2

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

stevedore - 🚢 Docker distribution for Windows Containers that Just Works

docker-wsl

create-mongodb-docker-image-and-connect-from-dot-net-core-app - This blog creates a Docker MongoDB Image container, database, collection and connnect this container through .NET Core Console app to read table data.

WSL - Issues found on WSL